Example sentences of "his own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A troubled soul , vexed and tormented by his own lusts and pleasures . ’ |
| 2 | Serve them right , he thought vindictively and then , imitated at his own childishness , turned his head to look at the other people arranged alongside him , the desk 's shining expanse of polished wood reflecting their faces as twisted white blobs . |
| 3 | And talking of the death of the novel , here is my all-purpose article on the subject , available for a modest fee to any hack who wants to put it out under his own byline : |
| 4 | I think I 'll get Fred to wash his own overalls . |
| 5 | The episodes related at any length , alas , are mostly very familiar , and available , dare one say it , in a number of other easily accessible books : the terrible saga of the first ascent of Eigerwand ( liberally intercut with Bonington 's reminiscences of his own exploits on this wall ) , or the carnage exacted by the Matterhorn on Whymper and party . |
| 6 | The presence of this pagan tale in a cathedral is strikingly reminiscent of Sigurd 's appearance in Christian contexts on sculptures in northern England , and the possible positioning of the frieze near Cnut 's tomb may imply that he was inviting comparison of his own exploits with those of the Volsungs . |
| 7 | Brett 's third penalty on the hour raised Selkirk hopes and they were further fanned by Marshall 's try from his own lineout pouch , Keith McConnell 's support and tilts by Bill Gentleman and Cammy Guntley . |
| 8 | If the Procurator was looking for his own pickings , it would have been in his interest to provoke a reaction that could be construed as hostile . |
| 9 | It can be said Carl had developed a parochial outlook by virtue of his own mastery over all his school studies , the violin , and his trade . |
| 10 | He was now showing his own responsiveness to Dave and Dave 's response in return , which made Mr E more hopeful about him . |
| 11 | All that remains for him is the bitter awareness of his own futility . |
| 12 | ‘ But I think of you as a creative writer , ’ he hazarded at last , amazed at his own effrontery . |
| 13 | As we have seen , it appears that , despite his own obsessions , Hitler was politically aware from an early date — perhaps as early as 1923 — that a wider currency than anti-Semitism was needed to distinguish the NSDAP from the purely sectarian politics of other völkisch groups , to extend the Party 's appeal , and to make a serious bid for power . |
| 14 | His work represents the brilliant efflorescence of a dying culture : he pushed that culture together by an act of will , giving it a shape and context which sprang out of his own obsessions , and the certainties which he established were rhetorical certainties . |
| 15 | Since the Congress Kingdom of Poland was only one of a number of outlying parts of the empire which required his attention , and since he could hardly afford a forward policy in western Europe or the Balkans until his own peripheries were fully integrated into the imperial structure , he spent more time in the 1830s and 1840s on his own non-Russian subjects than on dealings with foreigners . |
| 16 | When Florence of Worcester draws elements of his account of the battle of Assandun in 1016 from Sallust he is revealing quite a lot about the classical interests of twelfth-century historians , but also raising doubts about his own reliability , and William of Malmesbury , whose methods so often find favour with modern scholars , nevertheless records miracle stories which his critical faculties ought to have led him to doubt , and perhaps did ; and like historians of all periods , William , Florence and their colleagues were at the mercy of the bias and inadequacy of their sources , as well as their own prejudices and errors . |
| 17 | The tribunal ruled that Mr Brennan had no family responsibilities and so could live away from home for two or three years and could return home every eight weeks or more often if he chose to pay his own fare . |
| 18 | Markby summoned courage and delved in his own sack . |
| 19 | Reid was familiar with the works of both Malebranche and Arnauld , and expressed views strikingly similar to those in the latter 's Treatise in his own Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man . |
| 20 | The Realist , meanwhile , provided Wilcock with a vehicle for his own essays into experimental writing . |
| 21 | It was a demand for his own deselection . |
| 22 | Surprisingly , most of them were on his own front-bench . |
| 23 | Fifty-two , married to an American , four children but three are steps , girls ; his own boy is only eight . |
| 24 | His wife was no help to him , she was a poor , sickly creature , and he had his young sister to care for beside his own boy . |
| 25 | For this reason alone he needs our prayers as he seeks , all too aware of his own fallibility , to fulfil his ministry responsibly . |
| 26 | It would be hard to fault anything they did and although the unit bears the fiddle player 's name , every member of the band was given his own chance to add a little something to the songs under Pierre 's subtle method of musical direction . |
| 27 | Even though he was dissatisfied with Aristotle 's teachings , Gassendi was required , as professor of philosophy , to expound them to his students , just as his own professors had expounded them to him . |
| 28 | The Draco Normannicus written in 1168 by Etienne de Rouen , a monk of Bec , saw Henry II as a great continental prince , negotiating on equal terms with Frederick Barbarossa and with Henry the Lion , his own son-in-law . |
| 29 | The edginess of the others only added to his opinion of his own rectitude . |
| 30 | Kleine and Simenon were members of a group of young sensation-seekers called La Caque ( herring barrel ) , until the day Kleine was found hanging by his own scarf from the doorknocker of a church after a night of heavy drinking . |